ABSTRACT
With an increasing knowledge of Western civilization since the nineteenth century, public parks emerged in cities of China as a new type of space for education and entertainment. With three case studies, this chapter provides a spatial study of the effort against the backdrop of a worldwide public park movement since the late nineteenth century; it reveals the effort as a nationalist remaking of the cities that opposed foreign encroachment in early twentieth-century China. These parks, as revealed, catered for the mental and physical well-being of the community and contributed to the rise of a modern urban culture in China.
